Archive - FACT CHECK

Two 'provisions' are downright false, while the other two are misleading.

Chayra Ganal, the cleaner who disallowed trans woman Gretchen Diez to use the women’s restroom at Farmers Plaza mall, was not fired from her job as was posted.

Here's a round up of our live fact checking.

A Facebook post of a Filipino netizen about the alleged use of snake meat as an ingredient in several street food is false. The photos used in the post were neither from the Philippines nor for street food production. A similar story has already been debunked in Thailand.

These reports are fake.

This story is false. Don't believe it.

On orders of President Rodrigo Duterte, 10 high-profile convicts from the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa were transferred to the Philippine Marine Barracks in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, citing “threats to their security.”

Disqualified Duterte Youth party-list nominee and former National Youth Commission head Ronald Cardema made three false claims in his Notice of Withdrawal submitted before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Sept. 13.

The photo is not from an anti-SOGIE bill protest.

The post is fake.

Fresh from his five-day official visit to China, President Rodrigo Duterte went from “invoking” to “ignoring” the Philippines’ historic win on the South China Sea dispute at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA).

By seeking to penalize only “false and deceiving content online,” the bill neglects disinformation that spread through other vectors.